Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced that its commercialization arm, Wake Forest Innovations, has signed a memorandum of understanding with CHA Health Systems, based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Human connection — speaking with individuals one-on-one — is often the difference between an innovation becoming widely adopted quickly and one making little headway, according to an article by Atul Gawande, MD, in The New Yorker.
Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic, a multispecialty group practice with more than 700 physicians, announced it has joined Cleveland Clinic's innovation organization to develop and commercialize medical innovations to improve patient care.
Military leaders at Fort Campbell in Kentucky have broken ground on a new brain injury center, the third of nine National Intrepid Center of Excellence Satellite Centers that will provide brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder care, according to a…
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Robert Chrencik, MBA, CPA, has served as president and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical System since 2008. Before taking the reins at the Baltimore-based system, he was the system's CFO.
The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City has announced plans to establish the Hospital for Special Surgery Genomics Center using a $5.6 million grant from The Tow Foundation.
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer Health company, launched an interactive, mobile version of the anesthesiology text "Clinical Anesthesia, Seventh Edition."
American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The Atlantic.
TYRX, a company that commercializes implantable medical devices intended to help reduce surgical site infections, has announced that the first implantation of its new AIGISRx R Fully Resorbable Antibacterial Envelope has taken place at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute…